Bruckner/ Bruckner Orchester Linz - Symphony No. 8 C-Moll (1887)Was it a sign of conductors' general satisfaction with Bruckner's Eighth Symphony or editorial foot dragging, that the work's original 1887 version wasn't published and performed until 1972? It certainly was Hermann Levi's dissatisfaction or at least discombobulation with it, so shortly after his very successful Munich performance of the Seventh, that made Bruckner revise the work in the first place. It is this elaborate, raw earlier version that

His followers are a small and devoted tribe

Bax/ Mordkovitch/ London Philharmonic Orchestra - British Violin Concertos

generally a canzona

Twenty years separate Johannes Brahms's two sonatas for cello and piano - a nice interlude allowing us to hear the evolution and scope of his compositional style: dramatic

and orchestral musician in music ranging from classical to contemporary and from "world" to her own arrangements and compositions

15 includes a witty minuet and what sounds like a homage to Mozart closing with a virtuosic Galop which tests the guitarist's technique with it's brilliant figuration

Tuesday's spark ignites Carole's fire

Ready to blindside the scene with massive riffs

Cera has chosen nine priceless instruments

which make this performance irresistible

Glazer - Clarinet Bassoon Conce

When the Swedish recorder virtuoso Dan Laurin first encountered it